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Provides an analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Revised and expanded, this book provides the scientific and vernacular names for Australian plants of economic significance, including crop plants, fodder trees and shrubs, forest trees, pasture and forage plants, oil bearing plants, and honey producing plants, among others.

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Provides an introduction to the life and work of Darwin. This book offers a description of Darwin's family life, privileged childhood, and education. It describes his five-year voyage on the Beagle, during which he collected specimens to send back to England. It places his ideas in context with those of other philosophical and scientific thinkers.

This book is a guide to contemporary techniques suited to the 'beginning researcher', the graduate student or the post-doctoral fellow, as well as the established researcher who might wish to enter a new field.

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This is the first book to cover England's rare and threatened mosses and liverworts, collectively known as bryophytes. As a group, they are the most ancient land plants and occupy a unique position in the colonization of the Earth by plant life. However, many are at risk from habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and other factors. Britain is on

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This package applies the interactive identification and information retrieval program INTKEY to 563 world-level, DELTA descriptions of the families of angiosperms. The CD-ROM carries MS-DOS files containing the program and the data, along with 680 line drawings from early works.

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The first of six volumes on the lichens. The initial chapters provide an introduction to their structure, chemistry, ecology, history and classification, while the descriptive section contains a key to the genera of the Australian taxa, and descriptions of the 230 species in nine families.

A compendium of Australian moss species for which some Type (or putative Type) material is held in Australian herbaria.

Haloragaceae and thymelaeaceae make up the major part of this volume. Haloragaceae are an ubiquitous group of over 100 species found almost throughout the continent in a range of habitats, including freshwater. Thymelaeaceae also comprizes over 100 species, mainly in the genus "pimelea".

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Members of these two families should be familiar to anyone who has walked into the Australian bush. The biology and anatomy of the flowers, including their usual pollination mechanism, are described, as well as the diverse species making up these distinctly Australian families.

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This volume presents an introduction to the family Asteraceae in Australia, including a synoptic classification and keys.

This volume presents an introduction to the family Asteraceae in Australia, including a synoptic classification and keys.

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Volume 39 of the Flora of Australia describes 17 families of monocots in 76 genera and 256 species. Most of the families are aquatic, and include the sea-grasses, pond weeds, and some major agricultural weed species. Four families are entirely or mostly terrestrial.

Flora of Australia 44A documents four subfamilies of the grass family Poaceae, describing 80 genera and 405 species, including many of agricultural or economical significance.

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This latest volume in the acclaimed Flora of Australia series covers the subfamilies Arundinoideae, Danthonoideae, Aristidoideae, Micrairoideae and Choridoideae. It describes a mixture of tropical and temperate grasses and includes a number of economically and environmentally important groups.

This latest volume in the acclaimed Flora of Australia series covers the subfamilies Arundinoideae, Danthonoideae, Aristidoideae, Micrairoideae and Choridoideae. It describes a mixture of tropical and temperate grasses and includes a number of economically and environmentally important groups.

The first of two volumes on the vascular floras of Australia's offshore territories, covering Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. An introduction to the geography, physical features, climate, history of human habitation, and vegetation is provided with checklists of the species recorded on each.

Australia's islands range from the tropics to the sub-Antarctic. This text introduces the geography, physical features, climate, vegetation, and history of human usage for each island or island group. It offers a checklist for the species recorded for the island and a key to families present.

Describes and illustrates more than 1000 species of Australian mosses.

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Describes and illustrates more than 1000 species of Australian mosses.

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The first of six volumes on the lichens. The initial chapters provide an introduction to their structure, chemistry, ecology, history and classification, while the descriptive section contains a key to the genera of the Australian taxa, and descriptions of the 230 species in nine families.

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